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Abstract
In 2009, for the first time in Cape Verde, an outbreak of dengue was reported and more than 20,000 people were infected. Only a few prophylactic measures were taken. The effects of vector control on disease spreading, such as insecticide (larvicide and adulticide) and mechanical control, as well as an hypothetical vaccine, are estimated through simulations with the Cape Verde data.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by FEDER funds through COMPETE — Operational Program Factors of Competitiveness (Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade) and by Portuguese funds through the Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications (University of Aveiro), the R&D Center Algoritmi (University of Minho), and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT — Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), within project PEst-C/MAT/UI4106/2011 with COMPETE number FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022690 (Rodrigues and Torres) and project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022674 (Monteiro). Rodrigues was also supported by the PhD fellowship SFRH/BD/33384/2008.